Dr. Lister and the food pyramid have both been brought up, so I have to bring up Tesla. Pretty much every bit of wireless communication relies on his ideas, along with DC power, wireless charging, lasers, and what has become the Gamma Ray Knife concept.

He died broke and alone in a hotel room, and then the government agencies (led by people with the last names of Bush, Trump and Gorsuch) flocked in and took his papers, classifying everything useful. Then they slandered him to the press as a kook, fraud and idiot.